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i_am_a_cardboard_box@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Cinema, not literature. In the books the undead army is way less OP than in the movie adaptation. Their only weapon is fear, and they do not liberate minas tirith, but only scare the mercenaries off their black sail ships. Aragon uses the boats to quick travel to minas tirith with his elf and half elven friends and fresh troops from the south.

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Klear@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Their only weapon is fear

Fear and surprise

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- Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency.
  
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  - anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…
    
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    Klear@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    …
    
    I’ll come in again.
    
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- deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What about the limitless coffers of Rome?
  
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prototact@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ye I don’t blame Jackson for chainging it, there was less time to explain in the movie and the payoff was bigger. What works in books does not always work in films and vice versa

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- ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Jackson’s changes are generally improvements to the story or at worst understandable compromises for a different medium.
  
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